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Artificial intelligence (AI) has been billed as the next frontier of humanity: the newly available expanse whose exploration
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From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson
Day two started off great as I connected with several people from my home CSTA Chapter –CSTA New Hampshire. The CS community in New Hampshire is growing and the...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | July 15, 2022 at 05:52 PM
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I blog about what interests me or stirs my curiosity. One thing that fits that is what are the really big tech companies doing to support CS education. So I amAmazon...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | July 15, 2022 at 02:45 PM
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Well it was day one for me. I know that some people got in yesterday or earlier either because they were taking a workshop today or were part of the Chapter Leadership...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | July 14, 2022 at 10:52 PM
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My friend Andrew Parsons send me this link to an interesting video The unexpected logic behind rolling multiple dice and picking the highest. Now I love simulating...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | July 12, 2022 at 08:10 AM
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The CSTA Annua Conference is only days away. I’m pretty excited about it. It’s my first plane ride since CSTA in Phoenix in 2019. That’s a long time for me. OrJacdac...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | July 11, 2022 at 08:44 AM
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On my first visit to the Lifelong Kindergarten Group and the MIT Media Lab, I notices a message on the windows. “Some people would rather move atoms than pixels...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | July 5, 2022 at 10:16 AM
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Spring is an interesting time on social media. I help moderate a couple of CS teacher groups on Facebook and let me tell you, membership is booming! Why? Well,Computer...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | July 3, 2022 at 06:38 PM
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My son’s school, he’s principal of an elementary school, had a Bingo themed fundraiser yesterday. I can’t help but think about how things are done with any event...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | May 16, 2022 at 07:08 AM
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The Computer Science Teachers Association (CSTA) and the Kapor Center are conducting a survey of K-12 computer science teachers in the United States. The CS education...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | May 13, 2022 at 08:44 PM
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We often underestimate the difference that small things can make. When I was in high school all I could afford was a cheap plastic slide rule (no calculators back...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | April 13, 2022 at 08:00 AM
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My latest discovery, thanks to Doug Peterson, is Crazy Phrase. Crazy Phrase is something of a variation of Wordle except that in Crazy Phrase the player is a phrase...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | March 21, 2022 at 08:21 PM
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There is a lot of discussion about moving the Advanced Placement CS A exam to Python from Java. The Collegeboard is reluctant to do so. They see APCSA as the equivalent...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | March 8, 2022 at 07:00 AM
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Perhaps my favorite panel of SIGCSE 2022 was debating the question of should the APCS A course switch its language from Java to Python? During the discussion it...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | March 7, 2022 at 06:59 AM
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I had a great time at SIGCSE 2022. As an introvert I probably suffered less from not being with people than many but after two years I really needed to be withLast...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | March 6, 2022 at 11:23 AM
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Saturday at SIGCSE was a short day but there was still plenty to learn. Shaundra Daily. Her talk, based on her own history, was about how their are barriers making...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | March 5, 2022 at 01:10 PM
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The morning keynote was by Barbara Ericson. She talked about a lot of her early work including some of her online books CSAwesome and her work with the free online...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | March 4, 2022 at 05:27 PM
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SIGCSE 2022 is my first in-person conference in over 2.5 years. It’s my first SIGCSE in a lot longer than that. It looks to be a great conference . There are 1518...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | March 3, 2022 at 06:50 PM
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I love xkcd cartoons. I came across this one thing morning that shows the benefits(?) or rounding up. My immediate idea was “what a great programming project!” ...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | February 24, 2022 at 12:06 PM
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Error messages, in theory, are there to help programmers. Of course there are problems with then in practice. With students, the biggest problem is that they don...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | February 16, 2022 at 09:21 PM
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Mike Zamansky had a great post called Trends In Professional Development in CS - it's not all good. We’re still at a very interesting place in the development of...Alfred Thompson From Computer Science Teacher - Thoughts and Information From Alfred Thompson | January 27, 2022 at 01:52 PM